Twenty years ago, the Governess wrote a diary in which she described her relationship with her Turkish boyfriend. The Governess tells her father that he must have been joking when he said that her mother and Persia's father were "couples" . She says that it feels like "a life time ago" and that she often ate alone at lunch in the schoolyard. She calls out to her boyfriend, but he is afraid of heights. The two became "secret sweethearts" and she says that she cannot tell anyone else what she thinks like this. She asks him if he is the son of "a noble family" and he says that sometimes he does not know what fate he is even living for. He asks her if she would like to know why she did not bring the diary with her to the university. She replies that she does not regret dating him, but that she was happy when she did, and that society would be angry if they knew she felt this way. She tells her mother that she wants to be someone she will be proud to be